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Diodes Inc (DIOD 1.93%)
Q2Â 2019 Earnings Call
Aug. 05, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good afternoon and welcome to Diodes Incorporated Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, Monday, August 5th, 2019.
I would now like to turn the call over to Leanne Sievers of Shelton Group Investor Relations. Leanne, please go ahead.
Leanne Sievers -- Investor Relations
Good afternoon and welcome to Diodes' Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results Conference Call. I'm Leanne Sievers, President of Shelton Group, Diodes' Investor Relations firm. Joining us today are Diodes' President and CEO, Dr. Keh-Shew Lu; Chief Financial Officer, Brett Whitmire; Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Emily Yang; and Director of Investor Relations, Laura Mehrl.
Before, I turn the call over to Dr. Lu, I'd like to remind our listeners that the results announced today are preliminary, as they are subject to the Company finalizing its closing procedures and customary quarterly review by the Company's independent registered public accounting firm. As such, these results are un-audited and subject to revision until the Company files its Form 10-Q for second quarter 2019.
In addition, management's prepared remarks contain forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties and management may make additional forward-looking statements in response to your questions. Therefore the Company claims the protection of the Safe Harbor for forward-looking statements that is contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Actual results may differ from those discussed today and therefore we refer you to a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
In addition, any projections as to the Company's future performance represent management's estimates as of today, August 5th, 2019. Diodes assumes no obligation to update these projections in the future as market conditions may or may not change, except to the extent required by applicable law.
Additionally, the Company's press release and management's statements during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in GAAP and non-GAAP terms. Included in the Company's press release are definitions and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP items, which provide additional details.
Also throughout the Company's press release and management statements during this conference call, we refer to net income attributable to common stockholders as GAAP net income. For those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time, a recording will be available via webcast for 90 days in the Investor Relations section of Diodes' website at www.diodes.com.
And now, I'll turn the call over to Diodes' President and CEO, Dr. Keh-Shew Lu. Dr. Lu, please go ahead.
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Leanne. Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Diodes once again set new records across multifunctional metrics in the second quarter, including revenue, gross profit, EBITDA and net income. Gross margin also further expanded by 260 basis point year-over-year and 70 basis point sequentially as a result of record revenue in the automotive and industrial end markets as well as from our Pericom IC products.
Additionally, we continued to successfully drive increased profitability on incremental revenue growth with the first half 2019 revenue increasing 8% over the same period last year and non-GAAP net income increasing more than 40% over the same period.
Of note, our above-market performance was achieved in the current global trade environment as a direct result of our past design wins and the expanded customer content. Over the past year, we have been strategically focused on demand creation and deploying a total solution sales approach that leverage our broadened product portfolio, contributing to our consistent share gain. I believe these proven strategies will continue to sustain Diodes' future growth and out-performance of our served market, while also driving increasing profitability and cash flow.
Additionally, our exceptional financial performance enabled us to aggressively reduce our long-term debt by $44 million during the quarter. We now have a $70 million net positive position of cash and short-term investments to our total debts, which provide us increased flexibility and the opportunity to consider strategic acquisitions.
With that, let me now turn the call over to Brett to discuss our second quarter financial results and our third quarter 2019 guidance in more detail.
Brett Whitmire -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Dr. Lu, and good afternoon, everyone.
As part of my financial review today, I'll focus my comments on the sequential change for each of the line items and would refer you to our press release for a more detailed review of our results as well as the year-over-year comparisons. Revenue for second quarter 2019 was a record $322 million, a 6.5% increase from $302.3 million in the first quarter 2019, due to continued strong performance in Europe and North America as well as the automotive and industrial end markets.
Gross profit for second quarter was a record $122 million or 37.9% of revenue compared to $112.4 million or 37.2% of revenue in first quarter 2019. The 70 basis point sequential increase was primarily due to record high revenue contribution from the automotive and industrial markets as well as Pericom products.
GAAP operating expenses for the second quarter 2019 were $73.5 million or 22.8% of revenue and $69 million or 21.4% of revenue on a non-GAAP basis, which excludes $4.5 million of amortization of acquisition-related intangible asset expenses.
This compares with GAAP operating expenses in the first quarter 2019 of $70.3 million or 23.3% of revenue and $65.8 million or 21.8% of revenue on a non-GAAP basis.
Total other expense amounted to approximately $639,000 for the quarter, including $2 million of interest expense and $496,000 for foreign currency losses, partially offset by $1.2 million of other income and $633,000 of interest income. Income before taxes and non-controlling interest in the second quarter 2019 amounted to $47.9 million compared to $42 million in the first quarter 2019.
Turning to income taxes. Our effective income tax rate for the second quarter was approximately 23.3%. GAAP net income for the second quarter 2019 was a record $36.3 million or $0.70 per diluted share compared to $31.7 million or $0.62 per diluted share last quarter. The share count used to compute GAAP diluted EPS for the second quarter 2019 was 51.6 million shares.
Second quarter 2019 non-GAAP adjusted net income was a record $40 million or $0.77 per diluted share, which excluded net of tax $3.7 million of non-cash acquisition-related intangible asset amortization costs. This compares to non-GAAP adjusted net income of $35.4 million or $0.69 per diluted share in the first quarter 2019.
EBITDA for the second quarter 2019 was a record $77.1 million or 23.9% of revenue compared with $69.9 million or 23.1% of revenue in the first quarter 2019. We have included in our earnings release a reconciliation of GAAP net income to non-GAAP adjusted net income and GAAP net income to EBITDA, which provides additional details.
Cash flow generated from operations was $40.6 million for the second quarter 2019. Free cash flow was $8.5 million, which included $32.1 million for capital expenditures, and net cash flow for the second quarter was negative $65.5 million, which includes the paydown of $44.1 million of long-term debt as well as cash used to acquire Texas Instruments' Greenock, Scotland Fab in early April and the final payment for building for our Eris subsidiary.
Turning to the balance sheet. At the end of second quarter, cash and cash equivalents plus short-term investments totaled approximately $242 million. Working capital was $481.2 million and long-term debt, including the current portion, was $171.9 million. In terms of inventory, at the end of second quarter, total inventory days decreased to 100 in the quarter compared to 102 last quarter.
Total inventory dollars amounted to approximately $223 million, which reflects a $3.1 million increase in work in process, a $1.8 million increase in raw materials and a $1.5 million increase in finished goods after four consecutive quarters of finished good decreases. Finished goods inventory days was 26, down from 27 in the first quarter of 2019.
Capital expenditures on a cash basis for the second quarter 2019 were $32.1 million, which includes an $18.1 million final payment for a building for our Eris subsidiary.
Now turning to our outlook. Building on our strong first half revenue growth of 8% over first half 2018, during a time in which our served market was down more than 6%, further highlights our ability to deliver growth in a down market.
For the third quarter, we expect revenue to be approximately $324 million plus or minus 2%, which at the midpoint represents another quarter record and continued growth year-over-year as well as further out-performance of our served markets.
We expect GAAP gross margin to be 37.8% plus or minus 1%. Non-GAAP operating expenses, which are GAAP operating expenses adjusted for amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, are expected to be approximately 21% of revenue plus or minus 1%. We expect net interest expense to be approximately $2 million.
Our income tax rate is expected to be 23.3% plus or minus 3%, and shares used to calculate diluted EPS for the third quarter are anticipated to be approximately 52 million. Please note that purchase accounting adjustments of $3.8 million after-tax for Pericom and previous acquisitions are not included in these non-GAAP estimates.
With that said, I now turn the call over to Emily Yang.
Emily Yang -- Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing
Thank you, Brett, and good afternoon.
As Dr. Lu and Brett highlighted, second quarter revenue grew 6.5% quarter-over-quarter and 5.9% year-over-year as we continue to reach new records across our business and gain increasing market shares. Looking more closely at second quarter revenue, point of sales revenue was up, driven by the strong demand recovery in Asia. Distributor inventory in terms of weeks was flat in the second quarter and remains within our normal range of 11 weeks to 14 weeks.
Looking at the global sales in the second quarter, Asia represented 74% of revenue, Europe 14% and North America 12%. In terms of our end markets, industrial was once again our largest representative end market at 29% of revenue, communications 23%, consumer 22%, computing 16% and automotive 10% of revenue. During the same period in 2018, industrial was 27%, communications was 23%, consumer was 25%, computing was 16% and automotive was 9%.
Now let me review the end markets in greater detail. Starting with the automotive market, we achieved another quarter of record revenue as we continue to benefit from past design win activity and expanded customer content.
As I have discussed in the past, Diodes has been focused on strategically deploying a total solution sales approach that leverage our broadened product portfolio, which has been a key contributor to our consistent share gain and growth in this market. From a product perspective, we have solid revenue growth in our switching diodes, Zener diodes, Hall sensors, MOSFETs, LDOs and proprietary SBR product families.
These products are targeted at a variety of applications, including battery-managed systems, advanced driving assistance systems or ADAS, acoustic domain controllers, airbag control, lighting, body control, information display and gearshift level indicators.
During the quarter, we released a number of new automotive grade products, including real-time clocks, interface logic level shifters and Hall sensors. We saw design-ins in brushless DC motors, water pumps, power windows, electric horns and infotainment.
Wireless chargers for portable equipment like mobile phones are becoming a popular feature of vehicles. Our Low Voltage Gate Driver fully AECQ qualified is designed into several automotive models. We also continue to see adoption in the automotive LED lighting segment, specifically in front side, rear side and interior lighting, where we are winning designs for our LED Drivers with a number of automotive customers.
With the rapid increase of electronics in today's highly connected cars, robust ESD protection is becoming increasingly more important. We are seeing excellent design win momentum in the connected driving applications for our protection products in applications such as ADAS, telematics and infotainment. Similar to automotive market, we also continue to set new record revenue in industrial end market as well growing 13.7% year-over-year.
Together with automotive, these two end markets represented 39% of total revenue. We are gaining increasing momentum in smart connected lighting and commercial spot lighting applications for our SGT MOS technology and LED drivers. Drones and laser scanner are also driving growth in the industrial end market for our Zener Diodes and also continue to secure more designins with DC fan applications for regulator transistors, gate drivers and bipolar transistors.
With the rapid adoption of high-speed interface across multiple end applications in the IoT market space, ESD protection is getting more important for data links as well. We are seeing multiple design wins for our data line platform, which offers best-in-class ESD clamping voltage performance, while minimizing capacitance loading on the data lines.
Also during the quarter, we added new product in smaller package with DC-DC converter that are suitable for home applications, power tools and other industrial applications. Our newly released wide-V in LDOs are gaining strong momentum in this market, especially for e-meters and detector applications as well as DC-DC buck converters in solar inverter applications and high-voltage Hall sensors in power tools.
Turning to consumer market, Diodes protection product continue to gain traction in all type of panel applications. Our new miniature super high-surge performance protector products have been designed into earphones, wearables, portable devices, TVs and smart speakers. We also saw significant revenue growth for BJT products, driven by TV and monitor design wins.
We also secured increasing design wins for our standard recovery rectifiers, low-voltage Hall sensors and TVS products in large panel TVs, cloud-based cameras, robotic vacuums and lawnmowers,while switching diodes had solid growth in white goods home appliances. Our Zener diodes were also designed into smart thermostats as well as power sound systems.
Diodes also continued to gain strong momentum in Quick Charger and Direct Charger applications with our USB-Power Delivery solutions, which help reduce the charging time of batteries. We also continue to gain increasing traction in Virtual Reality applications where our newly released and first-in-the-market integrated high-speed MUX for USB 3.1 and USB 2.0 are seeing new design wins.
In the communication market, the transition from 3G to 4G and then 4G to 5G has become the major trend to meet the requirement of significant speed upgrades and large amount of bandwidth. Our products are well aligned to this trend with our clock buffer solutions currently being designed into 5G base stations.
These product are used as critical sampling clocks for the Base Band Unit and Remote Radio Unit. Diodes' diverse clock portfolio and superb jitter performance are the key technical factors for this applications. In addition, we see traction in 5G applications for discrete, power management and connectivity products, including USB ReDrivers and switches, and are also gaining traction in other communication applications such as new Voice Over IP phones, telecom power products as well as data networks and gateways.
Also in the communications market, mobile phone and peripheral applications continue to grow growth for our protection and power switch products. Our gate drivers have been successfully designed into latest wireless charging transmitter module, while our SBR and Schottky product continue to gain increasing penetration in IoT, mobile and smartphone markets by offering products with a thinner profile and compact dimensions.
Design wins are also being achieved with higher variable bit rate products for applications such as POE, server power and data centers.
Lastly, in the computer market, revenue increased 13.5% sequentially as a result of increasing traction for our Pericom product family. Power density and efficiency are fueling the development of the hardware evolution, and Diodes is actively engaged in this market with nLD MOSFETs in DC-DC power conversion and ultra-low Ron PMOS for load switch for battery management in computing application.
During the quarter, we saw strong revenue growth for our standard recovery rectifiers and synchronous rectifier functional array products in server power and fan applications. Along with this trend we also saw growth for our power switches and wide-Vin LDOs in notebooks and high-current LDOs in server applications.
Additionally, our protection product along with timing, signal integrity, USB Type-C switches, ReDrivers, charging and power management products are seeing significant activity in notebooks, tablets and PC applications. Further, our focus and momentum in the clock computing segment continues as our new products for timing, signal integrity and switching are being designed into server and data center applications.
In summary, our achievement of record results in the second quarter underscore Diodes' solid positioning across our global customer base as well as the benefit from our past design win activity and new product initiatives. Additionally, we continue to gain increasing content at customers with our expanded product portfolio, including our Pericom product family.
Our consistent performance continues to set Diodes apart, especially during the current market environment. We look forward to providing our continuous progress next quarter.
With that, we now open the floor to questions. Operator?
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And our first question is from Tristan Gerra with Baird.
Tristan Gerra -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Hi, good afternoon. Could you talk about your progress on the eight-inch capacity ramp and is that helping your gross margin?
Brett Whitmire -- Chief Financial Officer
You are talk about in GFAB or you're talking about SFAB?
Tristan Gerra -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Correct, actually FAB to -- in Shanghai.
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Okay, that's our SFAB. Okay, our SFAB 8-inch is going to be rented out. And so in the second quarter, we are fully rented out and of course, it is creating a gross profit for us due to the cost, it's cheaper and due to the coolant and the capability, is new on area. And we are able to load it while in the past, we had a capacity constraint on the MOSFET. So it help on the gross margin improvement.
Tristan Gerra -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Great. And then given the macro, which you've obviously outpaced very nicely with the share gains, how should we look at your gross margin trajectory medium term? Do you feel that you can sustain gross margin at current level? Any commentary that you can provide medium term?
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, the economic situation is actually slowed down. We all know that, but Diodes continue increase the market share. We continue gaining the growth, gaining the revenue. If you compare even at the midpoint of our third quarter, you look at the nine months of this year versus nine months of last year, we actually going to grow 5.4%.
And on top of 2018 versus 2017, we grew 15%. So year-over-year last year 15%, this year nine months, versus nine months, we're going to grow 5.4%. Therefore, even the market is soft, which everybody knows, the TAM actually going down, but our demand still there.
So we -- you know, our capacity is still utilized quite well, and thus far simply [Phonetic] we still continue somewhere around 37.5% to 37.8%, in that range. We continue to improve. So I still feel good about our gross margin, and I believe we still can continue in that kind of range result. While we do have seasonality or typically a price erosion, we don't need to particularly erode our price too much to gain the capacity or yield [Phonetic] that capacity.
Tristan Gerra -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. That's great. And then just last very quick one. Any color you can provide on your -- on TAM utilization rate?
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Our utilization --do you have that, the front end and back end?
Brett Whitmire -- Chief Financial Officer
Oh, yes. So the utilization rate for back ends is running in the kind of mid 90s. So it's running good in terms of -- and that's what we see. So we're able to modulate some of the things we outsource. So the internal utilization has been pretty good.
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. You know the way we set our model, 80% for local fab and 95% for AP consider as full because you cannot really full all the capability or all the packages.
Therefore, we typically use 95% as full. That means majority of our capacities are full, but maybe here, there has some unused capacity due to special packages. So based on that, we still -- our local fab and our AP is still quite good.
And that's why we are able to maintain our gross margin. And we've seen, since our revenue did not go down, our loading situation is going to be the same. So we don't see a issue from that point of view.
Tristan Gerra -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Shawn Harrison with Longbow Research.
Shawn Harrison -- Longbow Research -- Analyst
Hi and good afternoon and my congratulations, everybody.
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you. Hi, Shawn.
Shawn Harrison -- Longbow Research -- Analyst
If we look into the September quarter or even the back half of the year, either Dr. Lu or Emily, what end markets are you seeing continued strength, either on a sequential or a year-over-year basis versus kind of further contraction or incremental weakness?
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, that's separate into two things. One is the general market, OK? We believe the general market this year is weakened compared with last year. And that's why everybody started guidance year-over-year growth is either negative or flat.
And so that is the general market, OK? And -- but if you look at the Diodes, we are fighting very hard during the slowdown market and able to continue keep us on the growth path. And I know it's getting harder, but we still committed to continue growth year-over-year, OK. And so, automotive actually if you see -- we see the slowdown in automotive, and virtually Diodes can grow our automotive revenue by increasing the content.
Industrial, I said that the first half for us is very good. We have been setting the rate curve for the industrial, and we do see some slowdown in U.S. and Europe, OK. But that's where our major one is, but we don't have very strong industrial in Asia.
But automotive, we do have very strong in Asia, and we still continue increase our revenue in Asia or in China in particular. So overall, the market do slow down. Diodes, we're hoping we can continue our year-over-year growth. Especially our first half we already grow 7% or 8%.
Emily Yang -- Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing
8%.
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
8%, OK? And then even including the third quarter, the nine months of year-over-year, we are going to grow 5.4%. So we still continue to push our revenue growth.
Shawn Harrison -- Longbow Research -- Analyst
Okay. Great. And as a follow-up, Emily or Dr. Lu, the point-of-sale versus point of acquisition number for distribution. Was there a big variance this quarter? Did you see any notable de-stocking in distribution?
Emily Yang -- Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing
No. So as I reported, right, our channel inventory is within our normal range, 11 weeks to 14 weeks. If I compare quarter-to-quarter, it's pretty flat. So we manage it very closely for the channel inventory. So that's really what we've been doing.
Shawn Harrison -- Longbow Research -- Analyst
Okay. And then the last...
Emily Yang -- Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing
Point-of-sale -- yeah, so for the point-of-sale, we do actually see good recovery from Asia as I reported in my script. So I think that that's really encouraging to see. So that will be -- that's a good momentum that we want to continue.
Shawn Harrison -- Longbow Research -- Analyst
Great. And then last from me. Why don't you just get some, I guess, an answer on the rise in your intercompany sales? I know there's been some questions about how that's changed over the past 12 months, and I don't know if that's a factor of moving fabs around, other issues at work. But if you could just speak to kind of the rise of intercompany sales that we've seen over the past 12 months.
Brett Whitmire -- Chief Financial Officer
The biggest change in the intercompany sales is operating in more of a global supply company way in terms of how we move our product and interact with our internal and external manufacturers. You also see some optimization occurring with our customers regarding how they want to take products, where they want to receive that product and how we'll serve them. So that's the biggest changes that you see in that.
Shawn Harrison -- Longbow Research -- Analyst
Great. Thanks. Brett.
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And our next question is from Gary Mobley with Wells Fargo Securities.
Gary Mobley -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Hi, everyone, can hear me OK?
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Hi Gary.
Gary Mobley -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Let me extend my congratulations again on a solid first half of the year. I realize that there's not a whole lot of tariff headwind to your product that you're specifically selling, but you do sell heavily into the Taiwanese ODM supply chain.
Much of that product is consumer-oriented. And we have various tariff implementation dates the most recent of which is coming up here the first day of September. And so have you been seeing any pull forward of demand from your Taiwanese ODM customers that are trying to get ahead of these tariff implementation dates?
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Okay. Number one, these strength into tariff on this $300 billion is already talking for [Indecipherable]. So we do have customers, who want to move their assembly, or their CMs, outside of China. All in all, here and there, we do see that. And some of them actually always taking the action move to South Asia or Taiwan. They already -- some of the CM do actually take actions.
Now for our product and our product, we ship to the CM. So if they move, we just ship according to where they want us to ship. So we don't really see that much effect due to that. Now the new announcement just announced several days ago, and so I don't have any reaction to the market or any market reaction right away yet.
So talking -- I've been talking to [Indecipherable] any particular reaction after the new announcement, I just came back from Taiwan, last night, but unfortunately business has done fine before the weekend. So I don't really see any reaction.
Gary Mobley -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Okay. Now you guys have obviously taken a lot of market share in the first half of the year, probably the most notable share gain period that you've had in the Company's history. And so I was wondering if you could talk about the types of competitors that you're taking share from. Is it the old-world Japanese IDMs? Is it some of the former U.S. competitors that have been acquired by other U.S. companies, that have left some market share for you to gain? And I know your products are great products and you probably won the design wins on your own technical merits of the products, but is it just an easy environment to take share given that other people perhaps have de-emphasized products that you're promoting?
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, Gary, I think I already talking about this for several times. And number one, I really don't like to pulling out our competitors, the names, because it's not really polite to tell them we get the share out of them. Okay. So I don't want them, the company's name, but basically our growth coming from content increase, so the increase in sales. Content increase -- you know take automotive. Compared with five years ago, the electronics content on automotive do increased significantly. And therefore, since our design, our growth in automotive area is not the vehicle growth, it is really due to the content growth. The vehicle might grow some. Even back recently it actually gone down. But our content increase overcome that significantly.
If you look at our automotive growth, CAGR, the last five years is 35%. And even this year, with the slow down, we're still looking at 20%-something -- the automotive revenue increased. So agreed, the market slow down. We gain it? No. I don't want to say we take the share from company A or B. I don't want to say that. I want to say due to the content increase, we take advantage of that, and we grow our revenue.
Industrial, is the same thing. We have solution set through all the acquisitions in the past, including Pericom, including BCD, even including the Zetex. We are -- acquisitions give us very complete product portfolio. So Emily is able to convert our component sales into solution sales. So now we bring the whole solution to our customer and to the same application different customer to show them what is our product portfolio to get into that solution. So when we say, we are no longer component sales. We are not solution sales. That's the second one.
The third one is really due to the past several major acquisitions in the semiconductor space, we automatically provide a second-source opportunity to our customer. So by the industry consolidation, we, Diodes, is virtually -- have the good quality, good product and good solution. We will automatically to be the second source of our customer.
And number four, with all those acquisitions, we now can have a lot of synergies and cross-sales to each other for the map. And so if you take in those four things: Content increase, solution sales, major industry consolidation and our M&A, it give us the opportunity and the chance to grow better than our competitor.
So it's not only one thing or take away from one customer. This is the way we can continue growth and gain the market share in the past and will continue in the future too.
Gary Mobley -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Okay. Well, thanks for the Dr. Lu.
Operator
Thank you. And this concludes our Q&A session for today. I would like to turn the call back to Dr. Lu for his final remarks.
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you for your participation on today's call. Operator, you may now disconnect.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks].
Duration: 43 minutes
Call participants:
Leanne Sievers -- Investor Relations
Keh-Shew Lu -- Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Brett Whitmire -- Chief Financial Officer
Emily Yang -- Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing
Tristan Gerra -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Brett Whitmire -- Chief Financial Officer
Shawn Harrison -- Longbow Research -- Analyst
Gary Mobley -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
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